49: Mr. Tillerson, Welcome to the Resistance
The 45th
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🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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March 20, 2018 / Haroon Ullah joins Rabia and Susan to talk about what being a State Department employee was like in the Rex Tillerson era, as well as Tillerson's awkward and (semi-)surprising firing last week, and what to expect under Secretary Pompeo.
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| 0:00.0 | The There's the big board, the 20 electoral votes from the state of Pennsylvania. |
| 0:20.5 | We just got new metrics in. The inauguration of a president |
| 0:25.0 | celebrates a peaceful transition of power |
| 0:28.0 | engineered by the American voters. |
| 0:30.0 | This is your life now. |
| 0:32.0 | This is our election now. This is us. This is our country. It's real. Hi and welcome to the 45th this week our lovely listeners this is Robia Jawther I'm here with |
| 0:48.6 | my co-host as always Susan Simpson hey Susan how are you hey, I'm good, and this week we have a special guest actually. |
| 0:55.0 | We have an awesome new guest. I'm so excited to have him on and let me tell our listeners all about him before he joins us. |
| 1:01.0 | Dr Harun-O-Lah is joining us this week. He is a chief |
| 1:04.9 | strategy officer for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which is an 800 million |
| 1:08.4 | dollar global media agency and before that, up until very recently, Harun was a senior advisor at the Department of State. |
| 1:16.3 | In fact, he has served as a senior advisor to three secretaries of State. |
| 1:20.6 | His expertise is digital trans media strategy and CEE |
| 1:24.4 | countering violent extremism, which is a space I worked in for a bit. |
| 1:27.3 | He is also the recipient of a P body TV award. |
| 1:31.1 | He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He's a |
| 1:34.6 | term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and as if that wasn't enough. He's |
| 1:39.1 | also an award-winning author of two books which I urge our listeners to check out. They are great books. |
| 1:44.3 | One is Digital World War from Yale University Press and the other one is called |
| 1:48.6 | Countering Hate which was written with Bob Pearson in which he takes a look at the information battlefield, which is so important |
| 1:54.6 | right now and how we can turn the tide. |
| 1:57.9 | And one of the most important things also to add is that Harun is a dear friend of mine. |
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